At Fantasia 2025, Foreigner emerges as a quietly powerful meditation on belonging and otherness. Set in the early 2000s, the film follows Yasamin, a Persian newcomer navigating the fraught social landscape of a Canadian high school. What begins as a tentative coming-of-age drama steadily unfurls into an undercurrent of unease, as subtle acts of exclusion and coded microaggressions build toward a simmering sense of dread.

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